How Do You Power Through?

Yeah, one of those. You know what I’m talking about. Someone got the mogwai wet, they found the pantry, and the gremlins attacked.

Hi! I have come to sidetrack you and cause irritation and stress.

It started innocently, like it always does. I was having a regular day when I ran into this series of unfortunate events:

- I wasted an hour trying to diagnose and fix my printer. Not only am I bad where I started, I think I called some shady 800 number posing as HP, and let a man I couldn’t understand access my computer, who told me it’s chock-full of viruses, while

- Accidentally insulting a colleague in a Facebook group, while

- Having a difficult conversation about a project, while trying to

- Be available to my sister, who needed to talk to me and

- Get to an appointment.

It’s always a struggle to perform under pressure. All you can do is be positive and professional, prioritize and push forward the best you can. I am blessed with great clients and wonderful peers, as well as great consultants, so today wrapped up OK. I just want to throw this out there because I know you have days like this, too. Three things:

1. When the gremlins attack, you are not alone. It always shakes out the way it’s supposed to. Take deep breaths and keep going.

2. How you power through crazy days? I might take a 10-minute break to take the dogs outside, read a chapter in my book or clean up the kitchen (Another proof point of the beauty of the home office!). What are your best tips? Please share!

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Thanks to Buzzfeed for this Britney poster and this list of how to make it through.

P.S. I apologized to my colleague and she was amazingly gracious, the conversation about the aforementioned project went about as well as it could have, I finally talked to my sister and I kept my appointment.